With these unusual ingredients, you can make traditional salads sophisticated and bring them to life with flavour.

Popcorn

Sounds strange, but popcorn goes well with almost any salad. Popcorn soaks up the salad dressing, giving it a more intense flavour without adding too many calories.

Chocolate

A sweet kick gives sour salads an interesting flavour. Stir a little melted chocolate directly into the salad.

Maize crisps

Instead of croutons, sweetcorn crisps are an excellent addition to any salad. You can use savoury or plain crisps to vary the flavour.

Noodles

Especially in summer, any salad can be transformed into a full meal. A tasty pasta salad satisfies hunger and gives the salad a bite.

Tea

Tea is not only good for drinking. Salads can be made even healthier and more refined if you soak a few green tea leaves in the vinegar marinade. Filter out the tea leaves afterwards.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon adds just the right amount of sweetness to any vinaigrette. Cinnamon goes particularly well with spinach and strawberry salads, or any salad made from green leaves and fruit.

Vanilla

Vanilla doesn't just flavour cakes. The sweet spice gives vegetables an exotic flavour.

Gherkins

Pickled gherkins not only give the salad a tangy flavour but also a real bite. Other pickled vegetables such as asparagus, onions or kohlrabi also give the salad a kick.